Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-05
sought to enforce such a doctrine, but

sought to enforce such q doctrine, bu
one and that was the infamous admins
tration of Franklin Pierce which tried
to Gram :his doctrine down the throata
of. Kansas il the interest of the slave
aristocraos of the South who we're even
then plotting and planning Rebellion.
And ] advise them further, that this
attempt of Pierce and of the Southern
secessionists, to e~nslave In the most
brutal manner the Territory of Kansas
was rebuked by the people of the United
States, at the first opportunity, with their
| signal condemnation.
1t, in advising this, l am preaching
%nsurrection, / want TO know it.
The, worst things ] have said are the
words o fthe Declaration OF Independence
and OF Lincoln,
IT these are "Seditious" then / hal
fa!her be "%seditious" In the company o
Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln
than to be unsedltious in the company
of Jefferson Davis, Franklin Pierce and
Bill Springer.
1t is safer and then besides it is 81
great deal pleasanter and moro respec-
| table.
Now. then, if the gentlemen really
believe what they say, let them test 1t,
| have them IN this dilemma. Ii they do
not test it, by carrying out their threat
and having me indicted then they will
confess that they were wrong and that
this is no sedition and IS not unlawful
or in other words that they hove been
caught blnffing.
III they do test it if they will apply to
any Court and any lawyer in the United
States to test 1t, then they will be pros
! we'd publicly to be wrong.
/ sincerely and cordially invite them
to make this test.
I am led to make this proposition ont
of no spirit of brayado. nor from any
desire for notoriety.
/ make 1t seriously and deliberately,
and for a public purpose.
/ mean it in earnest.
Because / am led tc believe, from the
speeches of men IN Congress, and from
the ont givings of some news paper
organs Of the administration, that there
IS a new idea in the minds OF a few men,
unwarranted by anything in our laws or
institutions, that Congress has an abso-
Lutte, despotic and unlimited power over
the people of the Territory; and may
govern it as O Territory permanently, or,
what amounts to the same thing, indef.
initely, as long as they please to do so.
l have studied The history of our Ter
ritory land our laws, and institutions and
constitution, and the decisions of the
courts with care, and with oil the ability
l possess.
And I announce, as my firm and settled
conviction, that such doctrine ID o
heresy, which has absolutely no founda-
tion in the legislation Of any Congress,
In the decision of any court. nor in the
opinion of any administration, save one,
the infamous administration Of Franklin
Pierce, who, under the lead and inspira-
tion of Jefferson Davis, undertook to
dragoon and harry Kansas into o slave
State, by deeds OF fraud, violence,
and ferecity. which put to shame the
atrocities of the Dark Ages, and which
provoked from the venerable Orittenden,
O Southern Senator, from Kentucky.
such o whitening and scathing denuncia-
tion, that it brought the blush OF shame
ven to the faces of the most hardened
Southern conspirator: and which made
the name of Lecompte, Synonymous
| with Jefferies.
The action OF that administration, in
the interest o; the Southern conspira-
o 9, who we're even then tI3tting the
/ ebelli ons evoked from the great Lin
20 u in Illinois, q denunciation that was
III more terrible because il was calm,
ju ioial and unanswerable.
lSee Won Holst's Constitutional His
tory Of the United States, and Nioolay's
Life of Abraham Lincoln.)
Against that action Sumner, Seward,
Trumbuil, Chase, Douglas, and q host Of
other great g ants, whose names the
American People revere, as OF authority,
%thundered with q righteous indignation
which aWoke the answering wrath OF the
American People.
r And that people at last aroused and
over whelmed that guilty administration
and that guilty party with an avalanche
+, Of destruction.
i decline to be governed by The pre-.
cedentB set by Jefferson Davis, and
Franklin Pierce. / choose rather to fol-
the presidents Of Washington, Jefferson,
Lincoln, and Douglas.
l stand in this position, supported by
the line of precedents from Washington
down: by the unanimous opinions OF the
greatest names of America, from Wash
lngton down TO Lincoln; by the uniform
line OF authorities of all the tribunals OF
the country; by the Three Great Char.
ters of American history; by the fuDda-
mental principles OF this Government
from its foundation to the present time;
and by the very Spirit, which OF this
very day, one hundred and eleven years
ago, guided the hand and the soul OF
Thomas Jefferson, as he signed his name
to that Declaration, which has made
this day, and this country, immortal,
PUBLIC SERVANTS.
Grover Cleveland and Bill Springer are
servants of the people not their Masters,
The people are the Masters, not The
subjects.
/, as n of those people, and q citizen
OF the United States, am trying to re.
mind Bill Springer and Grover Oleve-
land, Of their duty as servants OF as the
people, which they owe TO Dakota, and
which they have shirked under the
miserable false prstext that they die
not know what the people ofDakots
really wanted.
Their real reason was that they want.
ed to cheat Dakota out OF the Presiden.
| tial vote that belongs to her
] as one of the People, one OF the
masters of these public servants, say To
Bill Springer and Grover Cleveland, our
servants, that they have been negligent
and unfaithful in their duty to as and
that we propose to remind them of 1t and
teprove them. III they wont hear ,well 70
to somebody that has the power to and
will make them hear.
2 CONGRESS ACT.
We say to Congress, Act-Do some
thing.
You acknowledges, that it Is wrong to
keep as as a Territory.
But you make q preteXt that ouI